Anyone else here read Time out of Joint by Philip K. Dick?
I thought this was a nice, concise, and original read, and my first real attempt at an American SF story. I went into it with very little background, only a brief blurb written in Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie about Dick’s description of the uncanny feeling of driving to the outskirts of one’s own town - one of the most memorable scenes from the book. The first half is certainly the better, while the second half’s over-explained and sort of goofy rational explanation for everything took away a bit of the intrigue.
Very cinematic. Funny when it needed to be, moody throughout, and pretty transgressive to [my idea of] the standards of the late-50s.
Props to SF Masterworks for making such a great presentation. I always try to find their prints of books whenever possible.


Yes, his last name is “Dick.” Hurr hurr.
Yeah bro that’s why they call us Dickheads.
Just wait til you discover Moorcock.